About Geoffrey Malcolm Copland
Born 1942. Geoffrey Malcolm Copland is a British physicist.
Career and research Following his doctorate, Copland spent two years at Yale University, before returning to the UK in 1969 as a lecturer in physics at Queen Mary College.
Awards and honours He was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 1991, The main-belt asteroid 9193 Geoffreycopland, discovered on 10 March 1992 by Duncan Steel at Siding Spring Observatory is named after him.
Personal life Copland has been twice married, firstly in 1967 to Janet Mary Todd, with whom he had a son and a daughter; their marriage was dissolved in 1985, and that year Copland remarried, to Dorothy Joy Harrison.
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British physicist and university administrator
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Geoffrey Malcolm Copland was born on 28 June 1942.
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